by Erica | Jan 12, 2014 | Cake & Cupcakes, Guest Bloggers
Buzz and I both like babka, which is a traditional Jewish dessert from eastern Europe with cinnamon or chocolate braided throughout a sweet bread-cake. There’s another related dessert called baba, which is essentially the same cake but with fruit or chocolate...
by RetroRuth | Dec 23, 2013 | Cake & Cupcakes, Christmas, Desserts, Holiday
This is it! The final day of The Five Days of Fruit Cake! And that is pretty funny, because we are ending this on a non-cake note. Unless you consider an icebox cake a cake. No-Bake Festive Fruit Cake Author: California Raisin Board, 1953 Ingredients 1/2 cup PET...
by RetroRuth | Dec 22, 2013 | Cake & Cupcakes, Christmas, Desserts, Holiday
It’s Day Four of The Five Days of Fruit Cake, and today we have a fruit cake made of sweetened condensed milk and corn flakes. Which is a little crazy. Ever-So-Easy Fruit Cake Author: Borden, 1972 Ingredients 3 eggs, slightly beaten 1 can sweetened condensed milk 1...
by RetroRuth | Dec 21, 2013 | Cake & Cupcakes, Christmas, Desserts, Holiday
Welcome to the third day of The Five Days of Fruit Cake! Today we have a fruit cake that I think everyone is just going to love. Wait…you guys love condensed tomato soup in your fruit cakes, right? Well, if you do, then the M-m-m Good Fruit Cake might be for you!...
by RetroRuth | Dec 20, 2013 | Cake & Cupcakes, Christmas, Desserts, Holiday
Welcome to Day Two of the Five Days of Fruit Cake! There are many, many reasons why I picked today’s fruit cake for testing. The first reason is because it has the name “mystery” in the title. Whenever recipes have the word “mystery” or “surprise” in the title, I...
by RetroRuth | Dec 19, 2013 | Cake & Cupcakes, Christmas, Desserts, Holiday
This year for our Christmas baking we decided to throw all caution to the wind and to venture into the land of doorstops and vibrantly-colored, nuclear fruit. That’s right. This year it’s fruit cake for all! What’s funny is that during the mid-century, fruit cake was...
